Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-29
AUTUMN MILLINERY.
CoIors, styles and Fabrics for the Ap.
preaching Demi-SeasoD.

coIors. STYLES and Fabrics for the APP
preaching Demi-SeasoD.
While the summer is at its height,
French milliners prepare their novel
ties for autumn, and importations have
already been received here giving the
earliest hints of colors, styles and
fabrics for the approaching demi-sea-
son. In colors the gray, Gobelin blue
and green shades that found such favor
at the Grand Prix will be fashionable
throughout the autumn; but as these
are cold colors they will need to be
warmed up for the winter by the new
pale yellow and deep orange tints, and
with the brilliant cactus red which is
even now chosen by stylish women for
watering-place toilets.
Ribbons will continue to be used for
bonnet trimmings in widths varying
from two and half to four or five
inches. The picot-edged ribbons will
not be abandoned, but the newer styles
and the incest qualities will have
plain edges, sometimes finished with
a straight cord, sometimes with merely
a fiat satin edge, and sometimes with
both cord and satin band. The novel
ties are the glace or changeable
ribbons of one color shot across
another, and the '.florescent' colors
with the shading done in the dye, and
producing very pretty effects. eros
grain and MORE ribbons make up the
bulk of the importations, and these
show odd contrasts in their changeable
colors and quantity delicate horescent
shading.
The glace MORE ribbons for trimming
the dark straw bonnets and the lace
hats that are worn throughout the au-
tumn may be quite plain or in stripes,
with satin or with velvet, or else the
center is of dotted gros grain, with the
sides of MORE. Plain gros grain rib
bons with straight edges will probably
be the choice for elegant winter bon
nets.
The new bOnnets remain small and
close-ftting, with lower crowns, and
many have coronet fronts. Lower
crowns and projecting brims springing
out from the crown are features of the
new round hats. The brims are most
capriciously shaped. some protruding
far in front, others much wider on one
side. some turned up in sharp point
against the back of the crown, and
others rolled upward in front and grad
uating narrower toward the right side.
A novelty is the generals chapeau.
called also the BOulanger, with its wide
brim turned up on each side in a sharp
point reaching to the top of the crown
and close against it. This is to be
trimmed with a long. thick plume, ex-
tending from the front to the back over
the crown. Other felt bonnets and
hats have pinked edges of the felt
in tapping rows on the brim or down
the sides of the crown. Turbans
will be used again in all the low
crowned English shapes, and with
some slightly higher indented crowns
pointed toward the front. Children's
hats of felt are mostly white, or in the
grayish Gobelin blue shades. They are
entirely of the smooth felt, or else the
crown only is plain, and the brim is OF
the long-napped brush felt.
Velvet, faille franchise, Bengaline,
MORE and gros grain will be the
fabrics used for making bonnets. All
of these materials are soft and plant.
the corded silk being more supple than
in any of the previous seasons. The
velvets are plain, in all the new colors,
and are also changeable, shading
through two or three tones of one col
or, or else in two contrasting shades;
striped and plaid velvets are seen, and
a new watered velvet is in plain colors
and glace as we'll
Felt and beaver bonnets and round
hats are largely imported in all the
new dark colors. The felt is smooth,
with some borders of long furry beaver.
Hats of plain beaver, or hatter's plush,
as milliners call it, are like the silk
hats worn by gentlemen these come
in all dark colors as we'll as in glossy
black, and will be chosen to match
tailor suits of cloth; they were intro
duced last winter, and were in great
favor with ladies who adopt English
styles of dressing. -Harper's Bazar.